Steven Spielberg

Background

Mr. Steven Spielberg is a Partner of DW Studios L.L.C. Mr. Spielberg serves as Creative Consultant at Universal Orlando Resort, Inc. He is a Co-Founder & Partner of DreamWorks Studios and serves as its Chairman of the Board. He founded Amblin Entertainment Inc. in 1984. Mr. Spielberg is the Founder and serves as Chairman Emeritus at STARBRIGHT Foundation. He serves as Chairman Emeritus of University of Southern California. He serves as Trustee at University of Southern ... California and at American Film Institute. He serves as Director of Lucasfilm Ltd. Mr. Spielberg serves as a Member of Foundation Committee of The Motion Picture and Television Fund. Mr. Spielberg has directed, produced seven of the twenty top-grossing films of all time. Last summer, he enjoyed back-to-back hits with “The Lost World: Jurassic Park,” which he directed, and “Men in Black.” which he executive produced. His film credits as Director also include “Jurassic Park,“ “Hook,“ “Always,“ and the “Raiders of the Lost Ark“ sequels “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom“ and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade“. In 1994, he won two Academy Awards—one for Best Director and another for Best Picture for his work as a Producer for the internationally lauded “Schindler’s List.” The film collected a total of seven Oscars, in addition to receiving Best Picture honors from major critics organizations, and seven British Academy Awards, including two for Mr. Spielberg. He also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and he was honored by his peers with his second Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award, the first having come for “The Color Purple.” Mr. Spielberg has also been recognized with Academy Awardâ nominations for “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Additionally, he earned DGA Award nominations for all of those films, as well as “Empire of the Sun,” “Jaws” and, most recently, “Amistad.” His total of eight DGA nominations ties him with directors Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann for the most career nominations. He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute and the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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